Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
WikiLeaks decided to use Twitter to settle scores, implying a heavy use of doxxing to silence its critics and detractors.
# oddities
The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
# tech
Of all the platforms on which to debate and fact check, Twitter is almost purpose-built to be the absolute worst.
# health
Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.
# oddities
We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...
# tech
The idea that just giving people more data to make the right choices flies in the face of how humans typically work.
# politics
An analysis of partisan echo chambers on social media shows that the far left and the far right have unique approaches to propaganda.
# tech
The start of a new experiment for a new era of blogging.
# tech
Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.
# tech
Reddit's reputation as the internet's sewer is both unfair and ignores the simple fact that when you interact with millions of people, some of them will be awful human beings.